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7. This Minister had great abilitys, was upright in his conduct, & his courage encreas'd addition in proportion /addition deletion adversity /deletion to adversity; Pride, ambition & moroseness, & a Melancholy that made him constantly a disagreable Companion, & often miserable to himself, sully'd his Character; he liv'd but two Years after from the time he was made Regent. Charles came but a short time before the death of this great Man from the Netherlands, & brought many of those subjects with him, thsoe he prefer'd to the Spaniards, who were much displeas'd at this; On going to Germany, he left the Strangers in Spain, & eve appointed Adrian one of them Regent during his absence, this so enrag'd the Natives that they loudly complain'd that in the space of three years above six Millions had he drawn from thence into the Netherlands, & even put several persons in the execution of their spies to death.